{"id":361346,"date":"2026-10-01T00:46:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T00:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/361346\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T00:46:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T00:46:20","slug":"miles-mcbride-playing-for-a-future-that-may-not-be-with-knicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/361346\/","title":{"rendered":"Miles McBride playing for a future that may not be with Knicks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Knicks coach Mike Brown has spent much of the early days of training camp answering questions about how his team will address what he labeled \u201celephants in the room.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Miles McBride\u2019s expiring contract<\/a> is one of the biggest.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old McBride is entering the final year of his three-year, $13 million contract and is set to become a free agent next year unless he and the Knicks agree to an extension. But there has been little movement in that regard, and his long-term Knicks future is uncertain.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously I love being in New York,\u201d McBride said after practice Wednesday. \u201cI\u2019d love to continue my career here, end my career here. Best fans, I feel like we\u2019ve done, obviously, something great this past year and the years leading up to that and I want to continue with this team.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

He is one of a trio of key Knicks whose contract situations are likely to hover over the season \u2014 Karl-Anthony Towns and Josh Hart spoke Monday about the discomfort of not yet having signed extensions<\/a> themselves. But McBride is the only one currently on an expiring deal, and the Knicks front office has a history of trading players on expiring deals rather than losing them for nothing in free agency. Mitchell Robinson this past offseason was an exception.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And the Knicks have a well-documented edict from owner James Dolan to remain under the second apron. McBride, set to earn just under $4 million this year, is one of the best values in the league. But assuming he has another productive season, he is in line for a dramatic pay raise.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Knicks have significant money invested in their starting five and will already be hard-pressed to keep that unit together, much less anyone else. It is likely just not feasible to also give a big contract to a bench player, even if he plays a key role. Robinson was a casualty of that reality<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"NewKnicks guard Miles McBride looks on during practice at their training facility. Corey Sipkin for NY Post<\/p>\n

The Knicks also have good depth at backup guard in Landry Shamet, Jose Alvarado and Jordan Clarkson. They lack depth at center behind Towns, with Andre Drummond the only backup who is a lock to make the roster. McBride is the best trade chip on the bench that would actually bring back good value and it would make sense that the Knicks could look to flip him for a quality big man.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like in a sense, every year you have to prove yourself,\u201d McBride said. \u201cI feel like there\u2019s uncertainty across the board for everybody in the league. Everybody\u2019s going for big contracts and this and that. So I don\u2019t let it really bother me. At the end of the day, I just want to go out there and give it my shot, play my best basketball.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"NewNew York Knicks guard Miles McBride speaks with members of the media during practice at their training facility in Tarrytown, N.Y., Wednesday, September 30, 2026. Corey Sipkin for NY Post<\/p>\n

Along with Towns\u2019 and Hart\u2019s negotiations, it presents a potential distraction amid the attempt to repeat as champions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re gonna face a lot of adversity and challenges throughout the course of the year,\u201d coach Mike Brown said on Wednesday. \u201cI addressed the group on that. I addressed individuals on that. There will probably be a time and place that I talk to [McBride] because he\u2019s human, we\u2019re all human, and we all want what\u2019s best not just for ourselves but for our family as well as the organization, too. That\u2019s a nice balancing act. But at the end of the day, he wants to be here, we want him to be here, and that\u2019s something that I have faith in [president] Leon [Rose] and even Deuce\u2019s representatives to figure that out.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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That McBride played through injury and sacrificed his body last year also plays into this.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He was terrific, shooting a career-high 42.0 percent from 3-point range before being sidelined after undergoing surgery for a sports hernia. He came back at the end of the regular season, though he was not as effective and struggled at times in the playoffs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s kind of crazy, thinking about how unhealthy I was playing through that playoff run,\u201d McBride said. \u201cYou go through surgery in an area where you need it. The easy medical term is sports hernia but it was a lot more complex than that. \u2026 The pain, there\u2019s only so much you can do with that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Healthy again, McBride is confident he\u2019ll be back to his best while auditioning for a new contract \u2014 with the Knicks or someone else.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Knicks coach Mike Brown has spent much of the early days of training camp answering questions about how…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4779,21,9,11,1104,10,319,63749],"class_list":["post-361346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-miles-mcbride","tag-nba","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-new-york-news","tag-sports","tag-training-camp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}